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2007-08 Operations, Information & Technology Seminars

Spring 2008

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

April 2 Franklin Dexter
University of Iowa
Empirical Analyses to Quantify Reductions in Cost from Reducing Non-Value Added Time in Operating Rooms 12:00-1:00 PM
S150
April 9 Seminar Cancelled    
April 16 No Seminar   12:00-1:00 PM
S150
April 23 Achal Bassamboo
Northwestern University
A Little Flexibility is All You Need: Optimality of Tailored Chaining and Pairing 12:00-1:00 PM
L103
April 30 No Seminar   12:00-1:00 PM
L103
May 7 Barrie Nault
University of Calgary
Vertically Differentiated Information Goods: Monopoly Power Through Versioning 12:00-1:00 PM
L103
May 14 Kartik Hosanagar
University of Pennsylvania
Blockbuster Culture's Next Rise or Fall: the Impact of Recommender Systems on Sales Diversity 12:00-1:00 PM
L103
May 21 Itir Karaesmen
Univeristy of Maryland
Competitive Analysis of Online Algorithms in Revenue Management: A Modeling Perspective 12:00-1:00 PM
L103
May 28 Gabriel Weintraub
Columbia University
Approximations for Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics
Abstract
12:00-1:00 PM
L103

 

Winter 2008

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

January 9 Sam Savage
MS&E Stanford University
Probability Management

Abstract
12:00-1:00 pm
L107
January 16 Feng Zhu
Harvard Business School
Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations 12:00-1:00 pm
S152
January 23 Richard Lai
Harvard Business School
Is Inventory's Fiscal Year end Effect Caused by Sales Timing? A Test Using a Natural Experiment from Germany 11:45-12:45 pm
S172
January 30 Itay Gurvich
Columbia University
Service-Level Differentiation in Many-Server Service Systems: A solution Based on Fixed-Queue-Ratio Routing

Abstract
11:45-12:45 pm
S171
February 5
Tuesday
Mustafa Akan
Northwestern University
Revenue Management by Sequential Screening 12:00-1:00 pm
S150
February 13 Margaret Bjarnadottir
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
Algorithmic Prediction of Health Care Costs and Discovery of Medical Knowledge 11:45-12:45 pm
S151
February 20 Robert Swinney
University of Pennsylvania
Who Has the Hot Product? Selling to Strategic Consumers When Product Value is Uncertain 11:45-12:45 pm
S172
March 5 Diwas KC
University of Pennsylvania
An Econometric Analysis of Patient Flows in the Cardiac ICU 11:45-12:45 pm
S151
March 19 Enver Yucesan
INSEAD
Multi-LocationTransshipment Problem with Capacitated Production 12:00-1:00 pm
S172

 

Fall 2007

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

October 2
Tuesday
Jan Van Mieghem
Northwestern University
Operations Strategy and Operations Research: An Example

Supporting Paper: The Value of Dynamic Resource Pooling: Should a Service Network be Integrated or Product-Focused
12:00-1:00 pm/L107
October 17 James Dana
Northeastern University/HBS
Internet Penetration and Capacity Utilization in the US Airline Industry 12:00-1:00 pm/L107
October 31 Donald Lee
Stanford University
Evidence-Based Incentive Systems with an Application in Health Care Delivery 12:00-1:00 pm/L107
November 14 Rodney Parker
Yale University
Inventory Management Under Market Size Dynamics 12:00-1:00 pm/L107
November 28 Shmuel Oren
UC Berkeley
Modeling and Computing Two-Settlement Oligopolistic Equilibrium in a Congested Electricity Network 12:00-1:00 pm/S172